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The Reawakening 3/3
I found an ally from my own distant generation
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The Reawakening (2/3)
I met my descendants, and faced a reckoning for the past
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The Reawakening (1/3)
They brought me back to life after a hundred and forty-two years
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Goatie 12
The governor was smoking when I was pushed into his office. He didn’t try and hide it, like he did with civilians. He might have tried to blow smoke...
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Sunny
It was a sunny and clear day. I know that’s a shite way to start a story, believe me. I’m seventy-something years old. I’ve read my fair share of...
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7.2 Club Rehendi
Bandiya girls brought their items and placed on the lane as they got prepared to leave for the show. Each had to carry her own items; a pitcher, pom-...
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In a Jam
Spaghetti and (traffic) jam. Image from Pixabay
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The land of candy and lollipops
My first go at fantasy!
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Goatie 11
Acne face as he swung the torch around poked it in my face for the umpteenth time. He pried open my eyes. Wouldn’t let me sleep. Even Goatie was...
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Good Morning Mr Antichrist 2
Natasha turned on the news channel. There were pictures of the new temple which had just been built in Israel and about a hundred yards away from it...
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White Lines? (Don't Do It) (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 23)
In which Amber takes a stand, Lawrence takes steps and Josiah, Archibald and Chantelle 'take a powder'
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Goatie 10
I was in bunk, rattling with not sleeping. Footsteps on the landing. I waited for them to pass. Jangling keys. Under observation. If it wasn’t the...
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Jam
I couldn’t understand why I’d never discovered it before. Perhaps I had, once, years ago during my childhood but it had frightened me and I’d locked...
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A Viennese Whirl
A Viennese Whirl What a disappointment! We spent three whole days in this beautiful historic city but at no point did anybody offer us a Viennese...
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At the Well of the Itza
The locals call it Chicken Pizza Its sacrificial wells and ball courts silent long before the conquistadors ignored it and sold the land for for...
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Waiting for the Flyers Part 13: Jess of the Oaks
‘Jess wants a meeting, he says it’s urgent.’ Jack and a young lad I had seen about before the accident stood facing me as I eased myself into my...
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- 666 reads
Suleman Dawood.
I do not watch the news anymore, but yesterday I watched it off and on for most of the day. It was big news around the world, and many people went to...
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Goatie 9
Prison bent even young bodies like Harry the Hatchet into a slow shuffle. But everything was done double-paced with the jail-head on. Aching for...
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This Place
I’ve been here before, This place; I recognize the straggling, ugly, angry wallpaper; And the way the darkness rolls in from all the sides at once. I...
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Is or Isn't Lena
After the diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolisms, my range of emotions stepped up. I asked the nurse if they knew why they were there - and she said it...
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